Appointments, Promotions, and Resignations

• Antonio Boyle, assistant vice president for enrollment management at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, was named chairman-elect of the Southern Region Council of The College Board. He will assume the post this coming spring and serve a one-year term.

Boyle is a graduate of Florida A&M University. He holds an MBA from Alabama A&M University.

• Staci Clayborne was named assistant vice president for student development at Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville. She was the principal at the Miles Davis Elementary School in East St. Louis, Illinois.

Clayborne is a graduate of Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. She holds a master’s degree from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.

• Flecia Thomas was named dean of student success at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois. She was director of the student success center at Arizona State University.

Dr. Thomas holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Illinois State University and a doctorate in counselor education from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

• Saundra Richardson-Cox, director of the Center for Academic Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, was appointed to a two-year term on the advisory board of Academic Advising Consultants and Speakers.

Richardson-Cox is a graduate of Grambling State University in Louisiana. She holds a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Evansville.

• Bruce Smith is the new director of the Black/African-American Cultural Center at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He was director of African-American student affairs at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Smith is a graduate of Brown University. He holds a master’s degree in education from the University of Southern California and a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.

• Charles Holloway was appointed chief diversity officer at Morehead State University. A graduate of Alcorn State University with an MBA from Xavier University, Holloway was a global delivery project executive for IBM.

• Beverly McIver, an artist known for her impressionist self-portraits, was named to an endowed professorship at North Carolina Central University. She held a tenured professorship at Arizona State University.

McIver is a graduate of North Carolina Central University and holds a master of fine arts degree from Pennsylvania State University.

• Tara Carter is the new dean of arts/communications/social sciences at Kishwaukee College in Malta, Illinois. She was an associate professor of English at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Carter is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa and is pursuing a doctorate through Walden University.

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